Starfighter: Eclipse

[h1] Beaucoup trop court ! [/h1] L'histoire est mignonnette. Mais même en la recommençant plusieurs fois pour réussir à développer les "romances très chaudes" avec chaque personnage, comptez 5 à 6 heures de jeu au max. L'intrigue principale quant à elle peut être bouclée en à peine 2 heures. Si vous choisissez de jouer en français, vous remarquerez quelques coquilles dans les textes. Enfin, contrairement à ce que le trailer animé (qui fait aussi office de générique dans le jeu) pourrait laisser croire, il n'y a aucune animation, ou cinématique animée. Ce jeu est un simple enchaînement de diapos, au rythme de vos choix de dialogues. Même si les personnages sont mignons, ça reste quand même très léger. Comparativement, pour rester sur le même concept, "Coming Out On Top" est autrement plus fourni et plus long... Perso, je l'ai acheté en promotion, pour moins de 2 €, et je ne regrette pas ce prix. Si vous voulez l'essayer, [b] je vous recommande FORTEMENT d'attendre qu'il soit de nouveau en promo...[/b] car il ne vaut certainement pas plus de 10 €.

in space no one is hetero

I wish there was a neutral option right now, but overall I have to put it on the negative side. Doesn't necessarily mean you shouldn't buy it but as a general audience I wouldn't recommend it. Lets begin with that if you havent read Starfighter before this its probably a hard no for you to buy this. You wont get to know the characters deep enough in this game alone that it would feel like a complete experience or game, you need the plot from the comics for this to be enjoyable in a greater way than looking up porn on random characters. If you want to do that, i dont blame you, but then its cheaper and less frustrating ways to do that then getting this game. The plot is overall fine. It is short but i dont hold that against them. Again, there is a comic to go greater into the plot and characters if you wish and i feel that its a breath of fresh air for a visual novel to not be tens of hours. A lot about this game IS good. The soundtrack is nice, nothing wrong about the writing and then of course the selling point, the art. The art is really good, especially the indevidual ones. The black and white theme works and are in line with the comics. The thing is there are bugs that mess with almost all of this. The text loads glitchy, loading times are weirdly long for a visual novel, the music switches tracks adrubtly and from soft and nice music to hard and techno meaning there is no subtleness that it does so either. The facial expressions on the characters sometimes glitches making them have no face at all for a short while, which broke the illusion for me a lot more than i thought it would. The mechanics are poor. The skip button is glitchy and unclear when it works. The backlog doesnt automatically show you the latest dialogue and save slots are limited. Most of these arent mayor flaws but when you keep getting more and different bugs it starts to be very frustrating. My game also shut down randomely two times for no apparent reason. NSFW mention below However. Almost none of these bugs appear in the NSFW elements of the game. They mostly run smooth and is also often where the art is most outstanding. I also apprechiate the different type of NSFW elements that is varied depending not only on which character you pursue but also which ending. The dynamic and type of sex is very varied and it doesnt just feel like i get a remake of the last scene i played but with a differnet character. Should be noted that all of these are still in the vanilla theretory so if youre looking for something very varied or out there this isnt for you. The game has a gallary collection where you can see what characters you have succesfully pursued and if you have dont everything possible on these characters routes. I think it would be easier to navigate eith an actual "butterfly tree" of paths because now i have to keep in my memory which paths i probably havent tried out, and there are a lot of choices. Which is a good thing in this game. With such a short game it would feel very dissapointing with only a few things to differ it but it has maybe about 20/30 choices for each path which i would consider a good amount in this case. Its also rather tricky to try to get the character you might want but i didnt find it impossible at all and most often when i was locked in on one character i managed to be able to pursue the one i had in mind. This is a very big plus on my side because it means, for me, the characters are acting relatively in line with their personalities. You can read and think what they would apprechiate and like without a walkthrough or exesive planning which is how i think it should be, but nonetheless still a bit tricky. I also died about four times before my first route which was something i apprechiated even though i migth have wanted a more drawn out "bad" ending now and then. There is no pure bad ending, only a neutral run and then character options.However there are some hint at the end how well that ending worked out for you, which can differ on the same character as well. Something that made me very pleasently surprised however (spoiler warning) is being able to get both a cain and able ending on the same run. Meaning there are not always one ending for a character, and even joint ones, which i did not expect. Overall the game has good potential but is very buggy. And considering ut was released somewhere around 2015 i doubt it will be fixed. However if you like Starfighter and NSFW content it can be worth to pick up. But i would even then, do like me and pick it up on a 50% off sale.

Игра хорошая. Много концовок (плохих/хороших), отличный сюжет (от одного выбора в диалоге может поменяться кардинально все), замечательный саундрек и рисовка. Очень сильно ждала, когда появиться в стим и была в восторге. Ничуть не уступает оригинальному комиксу. Жаль, что короткая. На одну из концовок можно наткнуться, буквально, через 15 минут игры. Советую чаще делать сохранения.

[h1][b]「極上のモノクロアートで描かれる、宇宙（SF）×BL。―原作ファンにはご褒美だが、ノベルゲームとしてのクセは強め」[/b][/h1] [h1]ストーリー[/h1] 主人公はアライアンス（同盟）の監視チームの一員となり、新たに配属されたナビゲーターの「セレーネ」と共に、深宇宙で発見された放棄されたエイリアンの宇宙船を調査する任務に就く。 しかし、任務から帰還した宇宙船「ケプラー」艦内では何かがおかしい。プレイヤーは艦内に渦巻く複雑な人間関係や政治的駆け引きを乗り越え、事件の謎を探りながら、魅力的なクルーたちとの危険なロマンスに足を踏み入れていく。 [h1]概要[/h1] 海外で絶大な人気を誇るHamletMachine氏のBL（ボーイズラブ）SFウェブコミック『Starfighter』の世界観をベースにした、成人向けのビジュアルノベル。 元々はブラウザゲームとして展開されていたものをSteam向けに移植した作品だ。モノクロを基調としたスタイリッシュなアートワークと、濃厚な大人向け描写が最大の特徴で、選択肢によって複数のエンディング（や死）に分岐していく。 [h1]感想[/h1] [b]アートワークは「神」だが、ゲームとしての導線はかなり強引。[/b] まず大前提として、本作は「原作ウェブコミックのファン」に向けたファンアイテムという側面が非常に強い。 原作者自身が関わっているだけあって、モノクロに差し色を効かせた独特のアートスタイルは本当に美しく、エロティックなCGのクオリティは文句のつけようがない。SFサスペンスとしての「エイリアンシップの謎」という土台も意外としっかりしていて、先が気になる展開になっている。 ただ、純粋なノベルゲームとして見ると、システムやシナリオの粗さがどうしても目立つ。 一番キツいのは「選択肢の理不尽さ」だ。どれを選べば誰のルートに入るのかが分かりづらく、ちょっと選択をミスると唐突にバッドエンド（即死）に直行させられる。 また、1周のプレイ時間が1時間強とかなり短いため、キャラクター同士の感情の積み重ねが薄く、ロマンス（という名のベッドシーン）がかなり唐突に発生する印象を受けた。「えっ、急にそうなる！？」と戸惑うこともしばしば。 原作の背景を知っていれば脳内補完できる部分も多いが、初見のプレイヤーだと「展開が早すぎる」と感じるはずだ。エロとアート目当てならアリだが、重厚なシナリオを期待すると肩透かしを食らうかもしれない。 [h1]評価[/h1] 【GOOD】 ・原作コミックの雰囲気を完璧に再現した、圧倒的に美しくスタイリッシュなアートワークとCG。 ・エイリアンの宇宙船を調査するという、SFサスペンスとしての謎解き要素が良いスパイスになっている。 ・様々なシチュエーションが用意された、クオリティの高い大人向けシーン（※男性同士の過激な表現に抵抗がないことが大前提） ・イントロムービーに挿入されるテーマ曲が上質で、ここだけ見ると健全なSFアドベンチャーにしか見えない(笑) 【BAD】 ・[b]ボリューム不足と価格の釣り合い。[/b]定価（約2,000円）に対してプレイ時間が短く、サクサク進んでしまうため少々割高感がある。セール時を狙うのが無難。 ・[b]選択肢の不親切さとUIの不満。[/b]意図しないルートや唐突なゲームオーバーに陥りやすい。また、既読テキストのスキップが遅い、セーブスロットが少ないなど、ノベルゲームとしての快適さに欠ける。 ・[b]導入の唐突さ。[/b]原作の知識がある前提で進む部分が多く、キャラの深掘りや恋愛過程の描写が不足気味で、性描写への突入が急すぎると感じる場面が多い。 ・日本語は所々不自然なので、[b]物語に抜きどころ[/b]を求めるプレイヤーには不向き。

After playing hustle cats and loving it and its wholesome representation of relationships and consent, I bought this game since it was the only other one made by the same company. And I really I want to like this game, I really, really do. It has great potential, cool ideas, cool concepts of characters, except one big issue (along with many more): [h2] THIS IS NOT STANDALONE AND IT FEELS MASSIVELY INCOMPLETE[/h2] Lemme repeat, because this store page does not indicate that: [u][h1]THIS IS NOT STANDALONE AND IT FEELS MASSIVELY INCOMPLETE[/h1][/u] [i]Imagine[/i] buying a book, and finding out that it was just 3-4 short chapters (and leaves off unfulfilling) and to get more important information and context, you needed to read through a slog of a comic. This is what this is. There's so much missing context, information on pre-established relationships, etc. that you end up feeling like a total stranger to this game that you bought. And to get the full experience and find out important info and context you can't find out here, you NEED to read the webcomic. I almost envy the people who read the webcomic first because if I had known how bad it was, I wouldn't have gotten this. It feels more like an ad or demo than a standalone product, and I wish there was more on this store page indicating that. I only found out when I [b][i]googled[/i][/b] this game. Every run is around total of 30 minutes to an hour and 80% of it just the same content over and over from previous runs. The only reason why I have 10 hours is because after my first two routes, several times I got bored and ending up doing something else while forgetting I had this running in the background. But if that's all there was, i wouldn't have written a review since I got this insanely cheap while it was on sale. (My friend and I do art trades and this was apart of the deal. At least we both had tons of fun joking about this) The biggest thing I'm salty about is the relationship between two primary characters who are actually the protagonists of the webcomic, so if you want to get context and information that this game fails to provide, good luck dragging yourself between the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that is their glorified, abusive relationship. After learning what I know, I can't be bothered to call the two protags by their names, so let's just call them [b]Lipscar and Edgelord.[/b] The writing for Edgelord both in the webcomic and game first felt like it could've been good and I held onto the smallest signs that just maybe it was self aware. He was so blatantly abusive, possessive, stalkerish, violent to Lipscar and anyone who talked to Lipscar--and I really thought that it wouldn't try to glorify it and maybe he'd get consquences for his actions, and those said consequences would be depicted as a good thing. To give you an idea of how toxic this relationship is (and it doesn't get better), the whole reason why Lipscar has well.. a lipscar, is because the first thing Edgelord did once they were alone after being assigned together was assert his dominance by straight up ripping his lip flesh with his mouth and leaving a scar because that's what he does to all the partners he's assigned to apparently. And this is what the webcomic will end up glorifying, so if you had any doubts that Edgelord would get any meaningful consequences for his actions and abuse, don't get your hopes up like I did. He ends up doing worse and grosser. The entire webcomic(which I stayed out of hopes it might get better), he just gets enabled over and over and it tries to present him as sympathetic at points when.. just, no. He is a predator. Many of the things he does to Lipscar can and should be classified as SA. How the hell is this emo bastard abuser a "good guy" and how does he still have his job when he's actively so harmful and everyone knows he's a pos? It reads like a horror story except imagine if the horror monster was depicted like a love interest from a really bad yaoi and you think it's going to be good or self aware because hey the game sorta was promising but it never gets to that point. The entire time I was hoping Lipscar would get to sue their asses and find someone better but Lipscar doesn't get retribution, justice, or even funded therapy. Not to mention a character I liked from this game(Goth dude) ended up helping Edgelord abuse Lipscar in the webcomic, so yay, I guess he's a pos too. Which character you're supposed to like isn't at this point except poor, poor Lipscar. When I got the endings where the (possessed? not really sure what to call it) Lipscar kills Edgelord I was rooting for him full stop, even though it was depicted as a "bad thing" To narrow this all down, I wish that I wish I had known these things before I played this game, as now its tainted what limited enjoyment I felt off of it. The art is great, the adult art is great(writing is poor and the sex scenes come out of nowhere though), the Sci fi horror is fun, and the ideas of some characters would've been cool if it had been handled well and not glorified constantly. What Lipscar and Abuser have is not love, not shipworthy, etc. It's just another bad representation of gay romance that lacks the warnings of what it is.I wish I had caught onto the red flags sooner, and if anything this has taught me to follow those gut instincts in the future. [h2]- CLOSING THOUGHTS -[/h2] If these things don't bother you, then by all means, get it while it's on sale because it certainly isn't worth the full $20 for an incomplete experience. I wish this had more warnings about its representation and at times glorification of sa and abuse. It felt like a betrayal for how interesting of a setup to nothing this game is. Also the story seems like it's going to be incomplete forever since nothing(that i know of) has been released after this, so that too. If any of you want a better representation of LGBTQ+ stuff, relationships, and just a generally better short and more complete feeling story, please get hustle cat on sale. Keep in mind it's sfw though. If you're just getting this for the porn, only the art is good and not the erotic writing, so I'd just find it online since the game makes it a drag to even unlock all of it and they feel like pretty short scenes as well. Not to mention the porn is bogged down by a plot that will disappoint by its brevity and pacing. To be clear, I don't think anyone who worked on this is a bad person, I just can't held but feel immense disappointment. At the end of the day, it just feels like an advertisement for some toxic bl when it isn't being a toxic bl itself. I wish everyone involved good luck on future projects and I really hope we see more out of this company. Please give us more stuff like Hustle Cat. Not this

Игра ужасно короткая. Отношения между героями развиваются настолько стремительно, что ты буквально не успеваешь проникнуться происходящим. Большая часть выборов почти ни на что не влияет. Да и в целом игра почти никак не знакомит игрока с миром, где происходят события, его особенностями и т.п. Самый главный плюс - приятные глазу арты. После полного прохождения остались смешанные впечатления. Игра мне понравилась, как и история в ней рассказанная, несмотря на то, что основной твист был ясен с самого начала. Но денег она своих все же не стоит, особенно если вспомнить насколько это короткая и, можно сказать, проходная игра. Рекомендую покупать только по скидке.